Summary Of The Divider By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser: Trump In The White House, 2017-2021

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The Man Who Ran Washington by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is an ambitious and lasting history of the Trump presidency. The book is based on unprecedented access to key players, from President Trump himself to cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, family members and congressional leaders.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Sep 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215998199

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Summary of The Divider

A Summary of

Peter Baker AND Susan Glasser’s book

Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

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Willie M. Joseph

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Contents

The Calling Card of a Presidency

SUMMARY PART I

AMERICAN CARNAGE

WORKBOOK PART I

SUMMARY PART II

YOU’RE FIRED

WORKBOOK PART II

SUMMARY PART III

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

WORKBOOK PART III

SUMMARY PART IV

DIVIDED WE FALL

WORKBOOK PART IV

SUMMARY PART V

TRUMPERDÄMMERUNG

WORKBOOK PART V

The Calling Card of a Presidency

They say his refusal to accept defeat in the 2020 election was part of a larger, sustained assault on democratic institutions. For four years, from 'American Carnage' to the 'Rigged Election,' Trump pitted Americans against Americans. They say he exploited divisions in U.S. society to gain, wield, and hold on to power. With Trump, there was always an us and always a them. He sought out enemies and where they did not exist, he invented them.

Over the next four years, Trump identified the vulnerabilities in Washington, and in those who served there. He weaponized his prolific lies for his political benefit and bullied any who opposed him. We also traveled to Mar-a-Lago to interview the president himself. What emerged was a portrait of a rogue president with combative instincts, erratic ways and a tendency to conflate national interest with personal interest. Internal resistance to Donald Trump was fiercer than recognized, if not always effective.

Many of those who blocked Trump were complicated figures who had spent years enabling him. This book is their story too, because without them Donald Trump might have been just another angry old man shouting at the TV.  When we visited Russia in 1998, it was only a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. Today, Russia under Putin is an outlaw nation waging a war of conquest against its neighbor with a dictatorship at home. The joke could also serve as commentary on the health of U.S. democracy after four years of Donald Trump.

SUMMARY PART I

AMERICAN CARNAGE

Ready, Set, Tweet

When Donald Trump entered the White House, the first thing he noticed about the room was the fantastic lighting. The harsh light changed the ever-shifting color of his hair and highlighted his caked-on makeup. He hated artificial lighting so much that photographers were reproached for using a flash in his presence. Donald Trump's combover was sprayed with TRESemmé TRES TWO hair spray (extra hold). An aide carried a travel-size can everywhere they went.

He did not like being photographed from below, fearing that would make him look heavier than 236 pounds. In Donald Trump's telling, the new occupant of the Oval Office was an American superman— physically strong, mentally gifted, healthy as a horse, rich as sin, and a magnet for beautiful women. From his first day in office, he wanted to project himself as a hero America had been waiting for. After Donald Trump's election victory, many in Washington assumed he would be an accidental president. Instead, he turned out to be a self-absorbed, ignorant, untruthful, and dangerous narcissist.

He flouted the rules of government and took payments from foreign governments and lobbyists while in the White House. The general's misreading of the new president shows how much official Washington has yet to absorb the new reality. Trump's New York friends knew what Washington would find out: he planned to live in his own reality in the White House just as he had in Trump Tower. Donald Trump was probably the least knowledgeable new president in the modern era. He got confused about how World War I started, did not understand basics of America's vast nuclear arsenal.

Advisers soon realized they had to tutor him on the basics of how government worked. David Rothkopf: Donald Trump was a narcissist who avoided self-examination. He met with his intelligence briefers on average two and a half times a week in his first five weeks in office, he writes. He doesn't really read anything, recalled Ted Gistaro, his first intelligence briefer. David Rothkopf: Donald Trump's worldview was a sharp departure from recent predecessors.

He admired strongmen like Vladimir Putin or China's Xi Jinping, but lacked a program for how to make America great again. There had never been a president like Trump, he writes. Patrick Buchanan's campaigns in 1992, 1996 and 2000 arguably set the stage for the Trump movement. Trump was an ideological chameleon, opportunistically embracing and discarding positions depending on the moment. He switched political parties at least five times, constantly looking for one that would welcome him as a savior.

The White House was Donald Trump's new stage set. He wanted to construct the reality of his presidency. Trump became infatuated by the eight flags standing in the Roosevelt Room. The president delighted in pressing a red button and ordering them moved to the Oval Office for his photo ops.